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Multimedia
High Def Web Visuals Coming Soon
In August, Adobe released a beta version of its new flash player. The player will now support Quicktime H.264 compression.
Online Convergence Award
I’m excited to announce that the mining series that I helped direct, photograph, videotape and multimedia-ize won first place for online convergence in the Associate Press Managing Editors contest for newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. It was a huge group effort, with Mike Belt reporting for LJWorld.com, Brian Powell and Greg Hurd producing [...]
Storytelling Using Google Maps
One of the coolest new features on Google Maps is the ability to create “My Maps.” I geo-tagged photos and 360-degree panoramas to a Google Map from a project that explores the long-term health, environmental and economic-related effects that mining has had on parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Click the image above [...]
Rattlesnake Roundup Resurrection
I’m resurrecting this audio slideshow from a few years ago because, well, it’s rattlesnake roundup season. I photographed and reported this story for the Lawrence Journal-World after thumbing through an events calendar for Kansas. Rattlesnake roundups are under increasing scrutiny by wildlife groups and animal rights activists as studies have found the species [...]
Kansas Wind Energy
Last week I spent a few days traveling around Kansas shooting video and photos for this story for the Lawrence Journal-World about wind energy. When I arrived back in Lawrence, I had put 1,000 miles on my VW Rabbit, clicked more than 1,200 accuations on my Nikon D200, and logged about 5 hours of HD [...]
Time Lapse Photography
Take a peek at three time lapses that I shot a few weeks back for the Lawrence 24 Hour Project.
Massachusetts Street. Total time lapse: 24 Hours. Frames per hour: 60. Total frames: 1440.
My backyard. Total time lapse: 30 minutes. Frames per minute: 60. Total frames: 1800.
Target. Total time [...]
Time Lapse Experiment
If you live in the midwest like I do, you likely experienced 40 to 50 mph winds today. I headed out the Haskell-Baker Wetlands south of Lawrence, Kansas to capture the gusty afternoon sky. The result is 30 minutes of real time compressed into a 90 second time-lapse containing 900 photos.
Watch the time-lapse [...]
Audio Panorama Tutorial
One of the latest additions to my multimedia toolkit is the audio panorama. Click here for an example. Some have requested a tutorial, so here it goes, albeit brief. This tutorial assumes you understand the basics of capturing a printable panorama. Need tutorial on this, visit this Adobe tutorial.
New look for ‘07
I’ve received a few inquiries as to how I’ve built this site. Here is how: I use Wordpress to build and manage my site, a modified version of Unsleepable to theme my site, Monoslideshow for my Photo and Multimedia pages, and the Kimili Flash Embed plugin, which allows me to embed Flash content on [...]
Audio slideshows
Why should photojournalists gather audio?
Combining photos and audio tells a more complete story
Audio enhances the photos; photos enhance the audio
Enables us to get to know our subjects better
Makes photographers better journalists
Encourages project-oriented stories
Keys to Successful Multimedia
Plan the audio. Know the options: Ambient sound, interview, narration, or combo
What is the best way to capture audio? [...]